Improvement in passenger-tickets



A. C. SHEL'DON. Passenger Ticket.

No. 208,933. Patented Oct. 15, 1878.

Issued by the New York asd Ssn Francisco 3.8.

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Issued by New York and San Francisco 3.8.

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A4.; ATTORNEYS N. PETERS. PHOTO-LITHQGRAPHEH. WASHINGTON. D. C.

,ALBERT C. SHELDON,

. IM PRovl-:MENT IN OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

PASSENGER-TICKETS.

Spccilicatiou forming part of Letters Patent No. 208,933, dated October 15, 1878; application filed February 2l, 187B.

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, ALBERT C; SHELDON, of the city and county of St. Louis, and State of Missouri, have invented a new and Improved Railroad Passenger-Ticket; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description thereof', which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains or with'which it is most nearly connected to make and use the same.

This invention has for its object the prevention of frauds upon railway companies and other carriers; and it consists in a passenger ticket, pass, or check combined with a novel and peculiar descriptive list of the passenger, substantially as I will now proceed to describe.

The said descriptive list consists of a full set of words and iigures printed upon the ticket, from which to select the particular words and gures applicable to describe each individual, all being arranged in lines or columns sufficiently near the margin of the ticket to be reached .by an ordinary conductors punch, and so spaced that any figure can be punched out, or a hole can be punched or mark made adjacent to any word without interfering` with the other words and gures near, the figures and words being printed clearly in the ordinary characters, so that the passenger can readily detect any error in his -description and have it corrected before using the ticket.

To insure accuracy in punching, the iigures are arranged in regular series of units, and small indicating-marks-such as a it or a f are placed over or under each word, and preferably in line with each other, through which the punch is to pass.

Directionsforusing the punch may beprinted upon the ticket.

The advantages of printing in the full descriptive list, leaving the particular items in each case to be selected and indicated by the punch or other equivalent means, without the necessity for writing. them out, are very great. Besides saving the time and labor of writing out each term in every case, it prevents all erasures or alterations of the terms, and, in case the-agent at the station should, in his hurry, omit to iill out the descriptive list, it

enables thc conductor of therst train whereon the ticket is used to iill out the necessary terms as he proceeds through the car collecting fares-a thing which would be practically impossible if the spaces were left to be filled in by writing.

The time requisite for punching out or marking the necessary terms of the descriptive list will be only a moment, and will cause no appreciable delay or inconvenience, either to the agent, conductor, or passenger.

The drawing herewith filed represents a ticket having my improved descriptive list, whereon all necessary words and figures from which to select terms descriptive of each individual passenger are plainly printed in the ornary and well-known characters.

The passen gers contract with the carrier is shown at A, a space adapted for his signature, if desired, at B, andthe descriptive list at O. The lines and columns of words and figures are arranged, as here shown, parallel to the margin of the ticket, a portion thereof ou each side, so as to be accessible to an ordinary conductors punch.

The manner of selecting and indicating the terms will be readily understood. Assuming, for example, that the purchaser is forty-five years of age, weighs one hundred and ninety pounds, is live feet nine inches in height, is of stout form, with black hair, gray eyes, side whiskers, and mustache, the agent would, in the line of iigures representing age, punch out the iigures 4 and 5; in the line representing height, the figures 5 in the division feet and 9 in the division inches; 7 in the line representing weight, l and 9 and 0, and would punch out the marks over stout, black, side, and mustache in their appropriate lines.

Other words may be added to the descriptive list, indicating race, sex, or any other term or terms of descriptionwhich it may at any time be considered advisable to employ.

rlhe descriptive list may be arranged'around the margin of the ticket, or on its reverse side; but such arrangement would not be so convenient and practicable as that shown in the draw ing.

My improved descriptive list will be of great value for stop-over checks issued by condnctors on the trains.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new- A railroad ticket, pass, or check having a descriptive list with all the necessary Words and figures for all classes of persons printed in full, said Words and figures being so arranged with reference to the edges of the ticket and spaced with reference to each other and the other matter on the ticket that the terms necessary for any individual description can be punched out or indicated by holes or marks, substantially as described.

ALBERT G. SHELDON. Vtnesses:

M. CHURCH, WM. BLAcKsTocK. 

